Thought I’d change the theme, the old one’s been up a while and it was starting to look a bit samey.
So new theme, new year (erm, nearly – chinese new year good enough?) and a new post!
God I am slacking at the post writing recently…
Anyway, things have been quiet on my end, as if you couldn’t tell already. Can’t believe I’ve only made 3 posts in the past 5 months! Time to start writing more again methinks. Yeah, I know I say that all the time, but it’ll happen sometime right?
So since the last post, Shill has joined Thunder on his Shadow Priest, Cesc, I have continued gearing up, begun raiding on a regular basis in Icecrown Citadel (finally!) and generally having a laugh. I did recently complete a fair old grind to get the [Reins of the Onyx Netherwing Drake], which is a funky looking flying mount. Took about 4 weeks of daily quests to get from hated to exalted with the Netherwing faction, whereupon you get one drake for free, and you can buy the other 5 or so for 200g a pop.
Glad I stuck with it tbh, because most players fly about on Proto-Drakes, so it’s a bit different, because not all players are willing to put in the time and effort to get to exalted…
This weekend is a free re-activation weekend on City of Heroes, so I popped on to see if any of the old faces were still knocking about, and to see how the old Supergroup (guild) were doing.
It was desolate. The SG is completely defunct – 2 players other than me have even logged in during the past 3 months, 1 that day and the other 18 days ago. The server, Defiant, is virtually empty. I went on originally at 1:30am this morning and there were only 74 players online. Back in the day, at that time on a Friday night/Saturday morning, there used to be 300-400 players still online. Not these days. I called back on about 10:30 this morning, and the population was only marginally higher at 94. So it looks as though the old saying, you can never go home, applies equally to MMOs.
Out of interest, it had been 524 days since I last logged on, which is nearly 18 months. So I checked to see, in the 2 years I played, how much time I had racked up on my main toon, Sar. Now bear in mind I’ve been playing my mage for just short of a year now (two weeks or so), and in that time I have amassed about 780 hours played on that single character. I did a check on my main CoH character: 506 hours.
Man, I play waaaay too much WoW. 150% of the time /played in half the time (1 year) is 3 times as much spent playing WoW than I ever did in CoH. Hell I’ve spent 200 hours at level 80, and I only dinged 80 on January 2nd. Half the time logged in 2 months that I spent playing CoH on my main there. Sheeeeeit bitch.
I really need to see about conquering the games-mountain I have built up atm. Off the top of my head I have:
- Mirror’s Edge
- Mass Effect 2
- Assassin’s Creed 2
- X3: Gold
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Colon: The Revenge: Part 1: The Attack of the Colons: !
Ok, that last one is made up, but that’s just the immediate list. There’s plenty more on top of that, for instance:
- Torchlight
- Grid
- Guitar Hero 5
- Braid
- Trine
- Left for Dead 2 (borrowed copy)
- Maybe a bit of Quake Live!
They all need some attention as well, because while playing WoW, I tend to either not play any other games at all, or just play one or two for a bit and go back and do something else in WoW.
So perhaps I should resolve to play WoW during the week, and at the weekends try and give some of the other games a bit of a go, because they ain’t gonna play themselves…
Infact, I think I’ll go play some ME:2!